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Hi everyone,

I'm having some rather heated discussions with a colleague about 'correct' style and punctuation in a magazine I do. Primarily where the punctuation of multiple quotations in a single paragraph is concerned.

I'm determined to use 'logical punctuation', where my colleague is insistent that it's incorrect and we must use 'conventional punctuation' (terms I read on another website, so I'm not certain if these are the names the two styles are generally called). All of which is complicated by the fact that we are in Australia, and punctuation here is a bit of a hybrid between the British and American styles.

Here's an example of the 'logical' style I'm applying:

The paragraph contains three sentences, and the third sentence contains two separate quotes from the same person. Because the two quotations are separate sentences in their own right, I've included a full stop at the end of the first one to make that distinction clear